GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| significant | having meaning |
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| tome | book |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |